Dow Watters Harter (January 2, 1885 – September 4, 1971) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Harter attended the Akron public schools. He received preparatory education at the

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and graduated from the law department of the same university in 1907. He was admitted to the Michigan and Ohio bars in 1907. He commenced practice in

, in 1911. First assistant prosecuting attorney of

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from 1914 to 1916. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1919 and 1920. In 1920 he was named as a charter member and first president of the Akron Host Lions Club. United States commissioner at

from 1918 to 1926. Harter was elected as a

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to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1943). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress. He was admitted to practice of law in the District of Columbia in 1943 and was a partner in a law firm there until his retirement in 1965. He died in

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, September 4, 1971. He was interred in

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